Re: Of removable devices

Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:24:10 +0100


On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 01:12:17PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:

> To get the CD insert and CD eject events though, you have to poll the
> hardware every second just like Microsoft does, since nobody has ever
> created a CDROM drive supporting async event notification (though the
> Mt. Fuji spec lists async notification as an option). If folks are
> willing to live with polling...

Isn't that the Unix way: the system behaves as you tell him. If somebody
installs vold for convinience... so be it and vold will happily poll the
hardware every second...

Yours,
Dominik Kubla

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